Insurance Commercial Says Sexual Assault Is Okay...

[The Albatross]

Interesting... cuz I saw this from a totally different perspective... both our mothers and fathers were grossly obese... they considered themselves to be invisible. They of course were not... but felt that way. Occasionally something would occur and there would be a consequence. They would reel... because fat insulated them and it busted down their misconception.

I did not see anything sexual about it I guess because my direct personal experience was focused on the person who deluded themselves into thinking that they were invisible.

 

[seedling]

She goes for the guy with the tank top on, more skin. She admits that touching his body was her intention. And that she was sneaking up on him to do it on the sly because she thought she was invisible. Kind of like a peeping tom. Yeah, that's weird. And if it was gender reversed it would be all over the media.
And they play the song "Pretty Woman." That's weird too.

 

[scout86]

and she does not touch him. I am not seeing it in any way offensive to either sex.

Something I thought of later. If I remember the rules correctly, in basketball, is the person who's guarding the person with the ball touches the person with the ball with their hands, it's a "personal foul". So by not touching him, she's playing by the rules.

@Lucycat , if I remember correctly it's advertising some kind of insurance. With the idea that you should deal with them because to them you're "not invisible".

I wish we could get the ad writers in on this conversation!

 

[SeanCharles]

:wtf: ?! OMG! Marketing is so ...

 

[The Albatross]

Saw this one yesterday, and liked it so I dug it up... it reminded me about the importance of planning as part of my maintenance, but liked the observation about "the future":

 

[anonymous]

I think @The Albatross makes my point very clearly....

She did NOT see it as sexual because of her own experiences.....DUN DUN DUN, ergo, others here who ARE seeing it as sexual are perhaps doing so because of their own personal trauma, ie being assaulted or raped by a man.

I feel so bad for people out there who see rape everywhere, those who say we live in a "rape culture".....uhm, nope, wanna see "rape culture"? Try going to Africa where in certain areas, rape is to be EXPECTED as a part of warfare. Annoying for first world people to be screaming about such crap when we live nowhere close to being a "rape culture". Just my vent. Feel free to live in a world where you get offended by anything and everything and turn it into a non-physical sexual assault of sorts.

 

[Fadeaway]

The official statistics in my city is 1-3 women will experience SA. I know that nationally it is 1-4. I think rape culture is any culture where rape is prevalent and not a rarity. Some places it is horribly worse than others, but knowing that I could be standing in line with 5 other women at the grocery store, and at least 1 possible two of them have experienced SA that, says it is too prevalent in my area not to call it rape culture.

 

[Kintsugi]

I will agree that this wasn't assault. I would still call it harrassment.

This isn't about rape culture to me. This is about "There are worse things than an attractive woman touching your body."

There are so many other words that could have been used instead, and the commercial would be intact.

That exact sentence has a lot of problems for me from several perspectives. In a short sentence, several social conventions are made extremely clear, and they are unacceptable conventions in my opinion.

-There are WORSE things
Lots of things are worse than other things... It doesn't make it right?
-An ATTRACTIVE
So harassment is okay if you're pretty
-WOMAN
Women can't violate men, at least not pretty ones?
-TOUCHING YOUR BODY
Don't tell me in what way touching my body is okay to you. Your opinion means exactly shit to me on that front.

Again... If the genders were flipped, this would be unacceptable. This is a gender bias issue for me more than anything else.

(These are open questions, not addressed to Anonymous, who seems solely interested in positing that sexual assault victims are afflicted with delusional opinions.)

Just for fun, though, what if the main character were...
-male?
-obese?
-Elderly?

Would it be the same? Would it be seen the same? How would your perception change?

 

[scout86]

I'm rather liking the idea of an obese/elderly person describing themselves as "attractive", And that's just because I've never thought of myself as "attractive" and it's always seemed like "being attractive" somehow made a person a more worthwhile human being. That't clearly my own issue, but not exclusively mine.

The more I think about it, what initially confused me about this commercial is that she SAYS that, but it doesn't look to me like she actually touches him. Being kind of literal, they lost me there. I thought maybe I'd just missed the contact, but now I still don't see it and I'm wondering WTH?

Lots of things are worse than other things... It doesn't make it right?

That! That is a very important idea for me. "It could be worse" is my stock reply to an awful lot of things. Sometimes it becomes something of a running joke. But, @Simply Simon , you are absolutely right, just because it "could be worse" doesn't mean it's ok.

 

[KimV]

This is a perfect example of people assigning meaning to something based on perspective. I used to work for an insurance company and I know exactly what they are getting at when they talk about people feeling invisible. From their perspective I would venture to say they took a "you matter and we want you to know it" customer service approach and made it into a marketing campaign. To them the details only matter in terms of what will get more attention. When I look at the t.v. my attention is held longer on people and things I consider beautiful, attractive, etc. In this case I noticed how well put together the girl was, but also thought she wasn't particularly attractive.

I DO agree with the person above who said something about attractive people seemingly being more valued than unnattractive people. And yes, I'm saying attractive and unnattractive. It's a fact of life. Whatever grievance you might have with that is between you and your maker. I also agree that real beauty goes much deeper than the skin, but for a 30 second insurance commercial only one is practical.